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Paul Laverty
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- Works
- 10
Top works
- The wind that shakes the barley
- Looking for Eric
- Jimmy's hall
- I, Daniel Blake
- Bread and roses
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Film & TV
Paul Laverty (born 1957) is an Indian-born Irish and Scottish screenwriter and lawyer best known for his collaborations with Ken Loach. He has won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay and was a nominee for the Best Screenplay award at the BAFTAs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Laverty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Quiet on Set: The Class Division in the Film Industry? — Self2025
- Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach — Self - Screenwriter2016
- Carry On Ken2006
- Ken and Rosa — Himself2001
- Land and Freedom — Militia member1995
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Kolkata
- Occupation
- jurist
- Educated at
- The Scots College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Cannes Film Festival
- Field of work
- humanitarian aid
- Image
- Paul Laverty 006.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- start of work period
- 1980-00-00
- date of birth
- 1957-04-01
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter
- unmarried partner
- Icíar Bollaín
- Commons category
- Paul Laverty
- name in native language
- Paul Laverty
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